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| US warns Pak against deal |
| US warns Pak against deal with militants
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 19-June-2008
8:30:20 AM |
| In a stern warning to Pakistan, the US has said that any deal with the militants from its restive tribal areas that allows them ''save haven'' or to act with impunity will ''come back to haunt'' Islamabad first.
''We've made very clear to the Pakistani government that the extremists who operate in the Northwest frontier in the Federal Administered Tribal Areas are a threat to them and to us and to everybody on the globe,'' US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in reply to a query at the at The Heritage Foundation.
Underscoring that the US and Pakistan had a ''common goal'' in ensuring that the militants are not allowed to operate, the top official said: ''After all, it was the forces of some of those people, some of those extremists, that killed Benazir Bhutto.''
''...it is obviously the sovereign state of Pakistan's right to handle this situation, but we've made very clear that we are concerned that any deal with the region would be very clear that terrorists cannot be harboured, terrorists cannot operate with impunity, because ultimately that's going to come back, first and foremost, to haunt Pakistan,'' Rice said.
''It will haunt the rest of us too, but first and foremost, it's going to haunt Pakistan,'' Rice told the
conservative think tank.
The statement came after a recent flare-up on the Pak-Afghan border after 11 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a US strike in the Pakistan's territory. The strike was stoutly defended by Pentagon which said it was acting against the ultras but Islamabad lodged a formal protest with Washington.
Rice said the US was trying to develop with the Pakistan government ''a positive agenda'' for its tribal region, where the ''terrorists are lodged''.
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